abandon

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It had none of the sweet self-abandon, the dear enchantments, the harmonising sense of safety and repose which that earlier passion had.

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  1. transitive verb To withdraw one's support or help from, especially in spite of duty, allegiance, or responsibility; desert: abandon a friend in trouble.
  2. transitive verb To give up by leaving or ceasing to operate or inhabit, especially as a result of danger or other impending threat: abandoned the ship.
  3. transitive verb To surrender one's claim to, right to, or interest in; give up entirely. See Synonyms at relinquish.
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  • Hundreds of tons of missiles and shells have been fired on the most densely populated area on earth; white phosphorous has been deployed with abandon, and the horrific Dense Inert Metal Explosive —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • The zoom of abandon is the already ongoingness of that which is already the case.
  • In addition to being in the company of like-minded people fed up with seeing their tax dollars taken and wasted with reckless abandon, there will be several activities to help ramp up the message being sent to the big-spending politicians and an opportunity to help your fellow man ... —  GraniteGrok
  • Eighteen skippers have been forced to abandon, and the other eleven are still racing. —  CNN.com
  • The first one was about ultimate love and abandon, and that was good, but it's kind of one-note. —  Winnipeg Sun
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  1. Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, from a bandon : a, at (from Latin ad; see ad-) + bandon, control; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English abandonen, abandounen, from Old French abanduner, abandoner (French abandonner = Italian abandonnare), abandon, equivalent to mettre a bandon, put under any one's jurisdiction, leave to any one's discretion or mercy, etc., from a bandon, in Middle English as an adverb abandon, abandoun, under one's jurisdiction, in one's discretion or power: a (from Latin ad), at, to; bandon, a proclamation, decree, order, jurisdiction, = Provencal bandon, from Middle Latin *bando(n-), extended form of bandum, more correctly bannum, a proclamation, decree, ban: see ban, n.
  2. from abandon, v.
  3. French, from abandonner, give up: see abandon, v.
 

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